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Called the Bravia-drome, the zoetrope was confirmed on 17 December 2020 as the ?world?s largest zoetrope? by a Guinness World Record adjudicator. The Bravia campaign will also feature Brazilian soccer star Kaka.
For those of you that don?t know, a zoetrope is a very basic way of creating small movies and animations. According to dictionary.com, it is ?a device for giving an illusion of motion, consisting of a slitted drum that, when whirled, shows a succession of images placed opposite the slits within the drum as one moving image.?
Here are some of the vital stats of the Bravia-drome:
BRAVIA-drome: Vital Statistics
? The optimum speed of the BRAVIA-drome is 44km/h
? The BRAVIA-drome can reach speeds of over 50km/h
? The BRAVIA-drome measures 10m in diameter
? Weighing in at ten tonnes, it took ten men three days to fully assemble the BRAVIA-drome
? The BRAVIA-drome is transported by two 40ft trucks
? It took six weeks for the BRAVIA-drome to be built in full for the first time
The construction?s final measurements were officially recorded as a circumference of 31.41 metres, equivalent to a diameter of exactly 9.998 metres. At nearly two and a half metres in height, the adjudicator required the assistance of several helpers and a step ladder during a tense fifteen minutes of measuring.
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